#this is the problem with prequels
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My main commentary on new Star Trek is that Ethan Peck will never be Leonard Nimoy and accordingly I need this franchise to have like 70% less Spock-centric storytelling. You Will Never Be Him.
#red said#sorry! i just think it's time to cut the Spock apron strings!#this is the problem with prequels#and btw i have always believed. that other than the godawful Klingons this was the weakest point of Disco#like Michael did NOT need to be Spocks sister. not everyone needs to be related to Sarek.#let go man
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"he died for our wins" - 2024, LIDL Oil paint on LIDL canvas
#CAN YOU TELL I SHIFTED INTO PLANT MODE#HLVRAI#RTVS#I got so many houseplants this summer i have a serious problem#the problem is alocasias#and overpriced aglaonemas#nilryth draws stuff#orange oil paint sucks by the way#it takes forever to dry#pink sucks too#I could keep messing with it forever but i have got to paint something else before i lose my mind#it's still wet af rn#I'll post a high res scan eventually#update: thought of an equally demented 'prequel' painting to work on next#maybe a third too
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Big fan of characters who “kill” their younger selves. Characters who resent the past version of themselves for letting them get hurt, who look at that kid and feel revolted by the foreignness of it. Characters who feel they have to cut the child out of them like a tumor because it’s hurting them too much and if I don’t kill you you’ll kill me. Nearly nothing remaining of that past self but for the little connections and mannerisms they can’t kick, and when it shines through, it’s a terrible, tragic thing, because the child is still in there. It’s in there and it’s grotesque in its suffocation. But it’s there.
#also a big fan of people from their past who love them whether they’re the same person they were deep down or if there’s nothing left cough#star wars#star wars prequels#the clone wars#tcw#anakin skywalker#because obviously#arcane#arcane jinx#jinx arcane#powder arcane#arcane powder#coriolanus snow#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#hunger games#hg#tbosas#yellowjackets#shauna shipman#honestly this could be any of the Yellowjackets but especially shauna that girl gots problems#my post#blue rambles
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angsty sketch
#my art#obikin#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#star wars fanart#sw fanart#sw prequels#drew this to avoid my problem for 10 mins#what is obi thinkingggg#guilt? shame? all of the above?
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i’m still just thinking about how in apocalypse the thing that stops magneto from destroying the world is an edit of charles just seeing the good in him.
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not even his DEAD wife and daughter?
or maybe mutants from the brotherhood?
nope. charles
#i wonder if magda had to just deal with her husband bringing up this old friend of his#but like i love magda though she didn’t deserve to be fridged that quickly 💔😢#the writers failed in giving these guys beard they’re still gay af#cherik#charles xavier#erik lehnsherr#magneto#moira caused most of the problems in this movie anyway#and yet charles is now randomly somewhat obsessed and checks in everynow and then?#girl she’s technically the reason ur bald and paralyzed#bro did not look interested when they kissed in fc#IF SHES GONNA BE A LOVE INTEREST DONT DELETE THE SCENES WHERE THEIR RELATIONSHIP DEVELOP?#petition to remake the x men prequel but cheeik are actually on screen lovers#i’m rambling in the tags lol#who’s still not over their ex? cherik
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Just cried laughing at a youtube thumbnail of someone who read Flowers in the Attic, and the text on the thumbnail was "PEOPLE LIKE THIS??"
Yes. I fucking LOVE IT.
But also, honey, I get that you hate it. I'm not going to watch the video because I don't trust you won't claim that my loving the best incest fuckery in the whole world makes me a dangerous degenerate, but I respect that you gave it a shot.
100% here for hating Flowers in the Attic, but in this house, we have that shit in hardback and are forever mad there isn't a single fucking accurate swan bed in ANY of the adaptations. INCLUDING THE ONE WHERE THEY CARVED THE WHOLE FUCKING BED.
IT'S A ROUND BED GODDAMNIT WITH WINGS AS FUCK COVER AND GAUZY CURTAINS LET ME SET DESIGN THIS SHIT WITH JOHN WATERS TO DIRECT
#flowers in the attic#vc andrews#my biggest problem with the series is that whatever book happens right before the garden of shadows prequel#chris and cathy are dumb as rocks about what could possibly be making their child act so strange#i dunno the fact you don't tell him jack shit and there's a creepy old lady down the lane#you cunts know not to trust creepy old ladies#what the fuck
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Someone please explain to me why I never want to write when I ACTUALLY HAVE TIME to write
#writing#author#writers#writerslife#writing memes#author meme#meme monday#writer memes#writer problems#star wars prequel memes#star wars memes#anakin memes#writers block
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Anakin*13years old*: how the hell you spell “show-fur?”
Obi wan: C-h-a-u-f-f-e-u-r 
Quinlan *bitter cuz he’s been trying to look like the cool uncle*: ooo fancy pants Master Obi-rich Kenobi over here! Fuck you!
Quinlan *to Anakin and Aalya*: next thing you know he’s gonna be giving us the definition…Master spelling bee ass
Obi wan: I’m about to do something so very unjedi-like
#Anakin just wanted help spelling something for his homework#aalya and Anakin then get a demonstration of why Obi-wan was almost kicked out of the order#they also don’t know if it’s flirting or an actual beat down#quin-lan gets his ass handed to him#mace walks in to the fight and wonders why the council gave them children#he then proceeded to walk away#it’s not his problem at the moment#it will be his problem in an hour though cuz Obi wan and Quin-lan caused 300 credits worth of damage#there is a reason why obiwan and quinlan aren’t allowed to be within 2 planets of eachother now#obi wan kenobi#quinlan vos#star wars prequels#star wars#anakin skywalker#Aalya secura#disaster lineage
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so. I've been reading some posts on the jedi order tag AND i won't talk about my opinion on "are jedi good or bad discourse" BUT i wanna point out some lore to everyone who's complaining about the jedi taking kids into their order: (in the EU) it wasn't always like this.
if you take swtor era (more than 3000 years before the prequels) there were many jedi who joined at an older age. like, for example there was a guy who broke his engagement to become one. most jedi remember their families because they were old enough when they decided to go.
THEN in darth bane's book trilogy (circa 1000 yesrs before the prequels) there is a passage where two sith lords are talking about taking bane, already an adult, to study at korriban. one doubted him because he was too old, ans the other told him he sounded like a jedi, and that ONE DAY jedi will have to accept only kids into their ranks if they really want to find "pure" people that can learn their lessons quicker.
one day!! so it wasn't always like that!! the ongoing wars with the sith, who corrupted and killed many of them, had pressured them into taking always younger people into their ranks.
also, consider a thing that this video explains super well: training to become a jedi is not like exercising, because there is a transformative lesson at the end of the training that changes everything. you can't just do as much as you can, but not finish.
the transformative lesson, as the video explains, is that through the force, everything is the same - from rocks and ships to life and death. at the end of the training you have to understand this fundamental truth.
yoda says "you have to unlearn what you have learned". during times where they were constantly killed off or corrupted by the dark side (and if you haven't learned this lesson you are more susceptible to this corrupting), younger people were taken in to actually finish their training (a training that was ultimately about being a good person AND that you could leave at any point if you weren't sold on that, too)
(remember that for the sith failure = death. like. that was the alternative for force sensitive kids. it's not like sith had any moral problem with taking kids away without consent. sith don't have moral problems: they believe that them being stronger in the force means they can do whatever they want as long as their strong enough to go and do it. there are MANY passages in many different star wars stories, even in different mediums, that say this out loud)
AND (this is more of a critical thought than just stating the lore) the fact that they started doing it out of necessity doesn't mean it's 100% good BUT you know. the whole set up of the prequels is that we're starting off the story in a period of crisis and decadence all around. most of the systems of the times were about to fall. OF COURSE they had problems. if they didn't, we wouldn't have the story to begin with.
that doesn't automatically mean jedi = bad and sith are better, tho. you wouldn't take the last, chaotic and decadent period to jugde something, would you? it's like deciding that the athenian democracy sucked because people at the times of Demosthenes failed at recognizing the new schemes in which the world was evolving into, and still believed that their city would be important as it had been in the previous century. They just didn't fucking expect the Macedons would conquer half the world known and more, and have the subsequent political power. Still, their experiences in the 5th century with democracy were very good, even better than ours on many fronts, if you contextualize a little. the jedi had flaws, and most importantly, they didn't fucking know the future and everything that ever happened, ever, so they made mistakes. that doesn't automatically make the system ill, or bad, or not-working. systems can have setbacks when the world changes. (just like athenian democracy had one when they lost the empire that was funding the democracy. they even had a tyranny for a while and then fixed the problems. that doesn't diminish retrospectively their democracy)
#this is longer than i expected it to be OPS. i wrote it quickly in one go so if there are any mistakes or some unclear parts. let me know!#i think it's quite clear from the second part that i am clearly pro-jedi and will always be. BUT i love sith lore also. it's a cool#universe to explore guys!! you can enjoy the bad guys even if they're fucked up u know? no one will judge you. you don't need to twist them#to make them “the good guys actually” (looks over at the acolyte's creators)#little note on the acolyte: MAN I SO WISHED THEY WOULD'VE WENT WITH SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF THE FIRST CHAPTERS OF THE BANE TRILOGY#it could've been so fucking good. ugh. I'll forever be grieving for all the Disney+ projects (except andor; mando s1 probably and rebels)#(YES EVEN TCW S7!! some of it wasn't so good. the last 4 episodes were definitely very cool even if they had problems like the rest of tcw.#but. the tags are not the right place to discuss this so OPS i don't even know why I'm talking about it here. ANYWAY BYE)#star wars#sw#jedi order#star wars prequels#the phantom menace#attack of the clones#revenge of the sith#pro jedi#darth bane trilogy#star wars the old republic#ALSO GUYS PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO IT'S AMAZING!!!! it's really really beautiful and doesn't consider the prequels so. even those who don't#like the jedi in the prequels can enjoy that i believe. really it's very well done and uses ONLY the original movies as sources. it's great#g posting
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Obi-Wan and Anakin's dynamic continues to hurt me in new ways every day and I'm just forced to go about my day as if I'm not in deep psychological pain over the idea that they could never really truly be able to connect in the ways either of them want simply because they're such different people at a fundamental level
#my favorite (but most painful) kind of dynamic is when two or more characters just can't be who they want to be for one another#the problem with my way of brainrotting is that i get to a certain point where there are too many emotions. and it's overwhelming#fandom: star wars#type: meta#i guess#star wars prequels#star wars#sw#darth vader#anakin skywalker#obi wan and anakin#obi wan kenobi#obi wan star wars#obi wan#anakin#sw prequels#star wars anakin#star wars the clone wars
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Ehehe... I'm having a lot of problems with Internet comments these days... I want to upload a drawing of Capper Dapperpaws, and I have to re-do the post three times... Well, I have nothing better to do anyway, I guess...
This drawing Is from a month or two old <3
#cat#mlp fim#doodle#enfp#sketch#mlp#mlp art#art#mlp fanart#mlp friendship is magic#capper dapperpaws#mlp capper#capper mlp#capper#chummer#mlp drawing#drawing#mlp g4#problems#my little pony#i love capper#his backstory is so awesome#i can't wait to read the next comics#mlp comics#mlp the movie#mlp the movie prequel#prequel#hiiii#heya#have a nice dayyyy!!
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#youtube#redlettermedia#red letter media#rich evans#jay bauman#gorilla interrupted#half in the bag#mike stoklasa#best of the worst#jack packard#george lucas#george carlin#george foreman#george a romero#george foreman grill#george romero#george russell#george harrison#georgenotfound#george rexstrew#regina george#starwars#star wars#star wars prequels#prequel trilogy#sw prequels#sw problems#prequelle#spn prequel#long
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BRO THEY LITERALLY DID IT AGAIN
I was talking this morning about how the og Titans were so off balance that they had to keep removing Donna and Wally from the narrative just to make it work because those two were WAY too overpowered for the typical Titan mission.
And do you wanna know what they did in today's Nightwing? Huh? Do ya? They, you guessed it, removed Wally and Donna from the narrative. But that's not all folks! Nope! Starfire got removed as well!
Honestly, I'm surprised Raven managed to still be in this thing. Cause it'd go Wally, Raven, Kori, Donna in terms of firepower.
Man... They weren't even clever about it. Wally was gone the entire issue with no explanation. He checked the perimeter of a jail once. That was it.
Donna and Kori got relegated to babysitting duty while the other Titans (sans Wally for no explainable reason) did the actual plot and went on a Heist in Hell.
This is concerning because this man is writing the new Titans series. The og series suffered because Donna and Wally were on a different level and the writers didn't know how to compensate for that so they kept knocking them out at the start of every issue. And now the same thing is happening.
Taylor doesn't know how to power balance. The best Justice League runs deal with assorted power levels by having different roles for the heroes to play. Ollie isn't on the front lines fighting General Zod with Clark and Diana. Hal doesn't tag along on stealth missions with Dinah and Bruce. Different heroes have different power levels and different abilities. Narratively, you have to juggle that.
And it's hard! I get that. It isn't easy. But I'm going to be honest, if a writer can't power balance then I don't want them writing the Titans series.
Because having half the cast drop out of the plot for no reason other than 'they would solve the plot too fast' is not good writing.
And I'm sorry. I'm going to say it. It's because Taylor is power scaling everything back for Nightwing. It doesn't take the entire goddamn Titans team to take out Blockbuster or to take out a single shape shifter. For some reason Taylor has this fascination with Grayson being the best and smartest Titan who can be the only one who solves issues, so every bad guy is difficult but doable for Nightwing to defeat.
It's incredibly annoying and it makes Nightwing seem super unlikable which is... I'm flabbergasted at that because it's Nightwing. How the hell do you make him unlikable?? But this is it. I've found it. This is the limit . Mary Sue Nightwing has no place in my heart.
#im ranting im sorry. i got out of an exam and was so excited to read the comics and i got this#what the goddamn fuck is this#this is our next titans writer??? this is supposed to get us excited for the new titans series???#this is just 'Dick is super cool and solves every problem and is the smartest and everyone likes him also his friends are there'#AND HIS FRIENDS AREN'T EVEN THERE HALF THE TIME#IM SO MAD ABOUT THIS. THIS IS NOT A GODDAMN TITANS PREQUEL. THIS IS THE TITANS BEING ABSOLUTELY INCOMPETENT AND HAVING NO CHARACTER#dc#dc comics#AGSHDJSKABDHDJENEHS#im too mad to tag people
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Listen, despite my severe aversion to romance , I tried, I tried reading it, and plus point for author, it wasn't hard cause there's barely any mention in first two books. Learning that two characters with 10 year age gap gonna marry, especially when I like them better as friends, especially when I was literally praying author won't go in that direction. Can't read it man!
I love hadrian and Arista, doesn't mean I want to read them as couples, fuck no please. That's what I hate about romance. I have no doubt author gonna do good job with them, cause whole writing is good, just not for me. I don't like 10 year age gaps, max I can go is 5 years that too in dire circumstances, 3 is preferable, 2 is better. But not 10 years fuck no.
#riyria#hadrian blackwater#arista#riyria revelations#It's good series#And I enjoyed it#But can't read it anymore#Might read prequels#But done with this one#Sad tho#I liked them#Royce and hadrian#Both were perfect#And arista and alric#All are just too good#fantasy books#Anti Romance#For good measure#my life is disaster in making at this point#and yet here i am#it's me hi i'm the problem it's me#c'est la vie#bookblr
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writing sammy and marie levesque interacting for the prequel fic is kind of challenging because hazel and sammy grew up together so there had to have been some sort of relationship there even though its straight headcanon. i think sammy had to have disliked her, i don't think anyone who cared about hazel would have liked her, but at the same time being respectful would have been engrained into him so i think ultimately he would have been uncharacteristically quiet and sullen around hazel's mother a lot of the time as to not say something disrespectful. marie doesn't pick up on this because. how can i put this. she's aware on some level that him and hazel are either together or going to be but also pretty much views hazel as his babysitter of sorts. like she still kind of thinks sammy is six that's how little he registers to her. she's aware that hazel is growing up that's a whole separate thing. she does not gaf about sammy though he is literally some neighborhood kid. just some guy. she's not even a hater because in her eyes he's too young to hate. he doesn't pick up on this which is good.
#prequel fic#i don't think marie would have been an especially strict parent#i think the much bigger problem would have been selectively enforcing rules/punishing hazel depending on her own mood that day#so not inherently strict just very moody and unpredictable#but also i think she might have been stricter if hazel was dating a chad#but she's not so marie doesn't really pay attention. hazel can kind of do what she wants#its not even coming from marie being naive or anything she really just does not care about sammy
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